The Innocent Anthropologist

Resumen del libro

The wittiest introduction to the life of a social anthropologist ever written. Studying in the Cameroons for his first experience of fieldwork, Barley discovers that the society of the Dowayo people refuses to conform to the rules of his new discipline. Although set amongst a little-known tribe in the Cameroons, this slim volume reaches out to a vast audience who would otherwise never look at a travel book about West Africa, let alone an anthropological field study. A seminal text for any student in search of a laugh. Witty, hilarious and unconventional, but also a remarkable intellectual achievement; Barley manages to turn the western science of anthropology on its head, so that for once the laugh is on the professional practitioners not the observe

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Nigel Barley x{0026}lt;/strong (Kingston upon Thames, 1947) es antropólogo, y hasta 2003 fue conservador especializado en África septentrional y occidental del Museum of Mankind del Museo Británico. Tras licenciarse en Lenguas Mo dernas en Cambridge, se doctoró en Antropología Social en Oxford. En Anagrama ha publicado su celebérrimo x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El antropólogo inocente,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong así como x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Una plaga de orugas, No es un deporte de riesgox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong Bailando sobre la tumba.x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/p